Install Windows Media Player 11 without Validate your Operating System

Go to Google type ‘Download Media Player 11′ and download it.

Download Winrar

- during the install make sure you tick the ‘Intergrate Winrar into shell’ box.

Extract the Windows Media Player 11 Installation file ‘wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe’ to a folder of your choice. You can do this easily by right clicking on the file and click ‘Extract To …’

Go to the folder you just extracted everything to
Run ‘wmfdist11.exe’ Do Not Restart if it asks.
Run ‘wmp11.exe’ and restart the computer.

Now goto
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player
Look for the file named ‘LegitLibM.dll’
Right click and re-name it to ‘LegitLib.dll’.

Open Windows Media Player 11 and click the ‘Validate’ button.
Click the ‘Finish’ button.
Click the ‘Accept’ button
Chose the install type etc etc

Thankyou so much everyone. I spent hours googling ways to do this. This is the only method that worked for me.


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